The "fencing as fetish" five

1. You dress in special, body-definining gear, all in one colour.
   
2. If you're a woman, you get to wear special breast protectors, AKA plastic cereal bowls :)
   
3. You have you're own special terminology, all in French
   
4. You get to wear gauntlets
   
5. You also get to smack potentially cute members of both sexes with a couple of feet of swishy whippy steel.
   

So, fencing = good. And a general upwards mood swing all round since yesterday. And I got a really cool Group of Seven calendar on EBay :)